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Britain's Got Talent's Connie Talbot stuns Simon Cowell as the now 18-year-old RETURNS

Connie Talbot has returned to Britain's Got Talent, 12 years after making the 2007 final with her angelic voice.




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Love Island viewer Chrissy Teigen asks for British slang translations

Chrissy Teigen, 33, has been having a tough time understanding the phrases used by the contestants on the hit British reality show Love Island




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Fans call Paul Hollywood 'brutal' after Great British Bake Off final

Bake Off fans were left stunned by Paul Hollywood's 'brutal' comments to sobbing Chester-based contestant Steph Blackwell in response to her show-stopper during the final.




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Britain's Got Talent's Ian Royce on sex addiction and alcoholism

The compère, who has also worked on X Factor, entered rehab last month after celebrities including Simon Cowell and Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly helped pay towards his treatment.




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I'm A Celebrity winner 'Jacqueline Jossa set to CONFRONT Chloe Ayling upon her return to the UK' 

Jacqueline Jossa is reportedly set to confront Chloe Ayling about her alleged threesome with her husband Dan Osborne and fellow CBB star Natalie Nunn - claims which he strongly denied.




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Celebrities get involved in JK Rowling's transgender Twitter row 

A London tribunal upheld the dismissal of Maya Forstater (pictured). Duncan Bannatyne and Sharon Davies MBE revealed their support for her - but others voiced their opposition.




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Coffee machine sounds just like the intro to Britney Spears' song Stronger when it's brewing

A Twitter user named Sam took to social media on December 26 to share a video of the De'Longhi Magnifica espresso maker brewing a cup of coffee.




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Mari Winsor, celebrity fitness trainer who worked with Miley Cyrus, dies at 70 from ALS

Winsor left her mark  in show business in many ways, having been a dancer in the Michael Jackson video Smooth Criminal and his Moonwalker film.




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Former Disneyland employee reveals what celebrity våçisitors were really like

Nicole Smith, 31, used to work at Disneyland in California. In a series of TikTok videos, she named all of the celebrities she encountered at the park




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Chris Froome to become Britain's first ever Grand Tour winner (from his hospital bed)

Froome stands to become Britain's first Grand Tour winner and add a seventh title to his collection after 2011 Vuelta a Espana champion Juan Jose Cobo was found guilty of a doping violation.




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Aussie celebrities including Julia Stone and Ryan Fitzgerald call for action on climate change

Asking the prime minister if this is 'the sort of world' he wants for his daughters, the campaigners said the country had been hit by 'unprecedented' disasters.




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Britons think Heathrow SHOULD have a third runway, despite court ruling £14bn expansion was illegal

The Court of Appeal ruled that the £14billion Heathrow expansion project was illegal because the Government did not take its duty to curb climate change into account.




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Britain's water birds have declined by a QUARTER in 10 years due to climate change

Data for the trust's Wetland Bird Survey - which has been running for 70 years - is collected monthly by a network of volunteer across British wetlands.




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Butterfly charity urges British public to report garden sightings during the coronavirus lockdown

Butterfly Conservation has been taking comprehensive surveys of Britain's butterfly and moth populations for the last 50 years.




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British woman, 22, 'is raped by French tourist' on the beach in Magaluf

The 22-year-old Briton said her alleged attacker had threatened to drown her in the sea at the beacj in Magaluf if she resisted, according to sources close to the investigation.




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Britons share their Houseparty horror stories about uninvited guests

Angry users of the social video app took to Twitter to complain their accounts had been compromised, with one writing: 'Everyone delete your Houseparty account'.




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Thousands of British teens are selling their own nude photos and videos on social media

One user named Lauren, from Northamptonshire, spoke to the BBC to reveal how she went on to become one of the British-based website's top earners in the world.




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Could a 'Win & Save' lottery for low income households work in Britain?

This type of lottery already exists in some poverty stricken states in the US - could a launch here help lower income households into the savings habit, while satisfying a craving to gamble?




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Growing number of Britons are working from home and in an office

A growing army of workers have gone 'flexi.' That is, they work part of the week in an office and part at home already, potential coronavirus pandemic or not.




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Food subscription box services are growing rapidly in Britain

One positive from this devastating coronavirus pandemic, is the willingness for more people to get in the kitchen to cook and adapt recipes for the ingredients they have knocking around.




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Anthony Joshua's trainer admits he thought Brit would lose

Anthony Joshua's trainer Rob McCracken admits he feared for his man after he was knocked down in the sixth round by Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday night.




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Anthony Joshua wants all-British clash with Tyson Fury

Joshua called out Fury in the ring after beating Wladimir Klitschko to become WBA, IBO and IBF world heavyweight champion, and he still has Fury at the top of his list of opponents.




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Jeff Powell ranks his top five performances by British fighters abroad

JEFF POWELL IN LAS VEGAS: In his seventh round stoppage of reigning WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury delivered arguably the greatest overseas display.




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England XI 2-2 World XI (World XI win 3-1 on penalties): World XI triumph in the celebrity shoot-out

World XI have won the biggest charity match in the world on penalties after Joe Wicks, Mark Wright and Lee Mack all missed from 12 yards in a competitive contest at Stamford Bridge.




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Britney Spears leaves fans in hysterics as she claims to beat Usain Bolt's 100 metre World Record

The pop icon, 38, took to Instagram to share a screenshot of a timer that recorded her run as taking 5.97 seconds, a full four seconds faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58 second record.




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Britney Spears dons yellow and insists she was JOKING when claiming to beat Usain Bolt's 100 meter

The 38-year-old star took to Instagram to share a video posing in yellow outfits along with a caption with her clarifying she was joking when she claimed to demolish men's track record.




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England's Cricket World Cup final, Wimbledon, British GP... this weekend's action is mouth-watering

The sporting action starts to hot up over the weekend, with plenty on offer for armchair fans should the weather take an unexpected turn for the worse.




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Victor Wanyama poised to collect British passport with Tottenham open to offers for the midfielder

Victor Wanyama is poised to collect his British passport over the coming weeks. The 28-year-old Tottenham midfielder put off a proposed move abroad last year to ensure he qualified.




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Stomach-churning pictures reveal the horrors of living with Britain's worst flatmates 

Reddit users, from all over the world, have shared the eye-opening antics of their awful flatmates in an astonishing gallery. Pictures show filth-encrusted toilets to pasta dishes with mould.




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Gymshark celebrity influencers' fitness plans are published online

EXCLUSIVE: Workout plans by bodybuilder Jeff Nippard and trainer Eric Helms were revealed in the package online - along with cookbooks by model Teigen and chef Ramsay.




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Thoughtful Britons join social media support groups to help vulnerable neighbours

Offers of help have poured in from thoughtful Brits on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter amid fears for the elderly, who are at greatest risk of serious illness as a result of Covid-19.




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Didn't make the cut! Brits share their awful hair dos after trying to give themselves a trim

Men around the world shared photos of their questionable at-home haircuts on Instagram, Reddit and Twitter as the world looks to lighten the mood.




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PETER HITCHENS: Boris Johnson is shoving retired British soldiers back into the firing line

PETER HITCHENS: A key part of the resurrection of 'power-sharing' in Northern Ireland is a pledge to revive a rather nasty deal called the Stormont House Agreement.




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PETER HITCHENS: How the ultra-left silent revolution took over Britain 

PETER HITCHENS: The idea that criminals are bad people who need to be punished and deterred has been abandoned. Crime is now officially a disease to be cured by 'treatment'.




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PETER HITCHENS: Britain is infected... by a bad case of madness

PETER HITCHENS: I have serious doubts about whether our Government has any idea how to slow the spread of this virus. I suspect it quietly reached these shores long before anyone noticed.




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PETER HITCHENS: Is shutting down Britain REALLY the right answer?

PETER HITCHENS: Here I am, asking bluntly - is the closedown of the country the right answer to the coronavirus? If we have this wrong we have a great deal to lose.




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Google searches for 'universal credit', and 'furlough' soar in Britain

Britons have been using Google to look up the Government's guidance on helping firms with furloughed workers to keep them employed but without working.




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Google searches for 'how to do fractions' and 'what is an adverb' soar in Britain since lockdown

After schools were closed in March and children were sent home, many pupils have been taught by their parents and taken to Google themselves to help with school work.




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British tourist is filmed punching a man on Bangkok metro

Footage taken on a smartphone on Bangkok's Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) metro line, shows a Thai man accidentally bump into a Westerner, causing his iPhone to fall to the floor.




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British Airways worker finds her iPhone 8 still works TWO MONTHS after she dropped it in the Thames

Thayse Bussolo-Vieira, 29, was shocked to discover her £480 iPhone 8 still worked after retrieving it from the Thames in Staines, Surrey, last week, two months after it dropped out of her pocket.




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Isles of light! Sun shines through clouds shaped just like Great Britain 

A retired NHS worker snapped this uplifting picture of what appears to be silver-lined clouds in the shape of the British Isles.




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Celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Anna Wintour are auctioning off signed sneakers for charity

Starting today through December 12, eBay shoppers can bid on athletic shoes that have been autographed - and in some cases actually worn - by top athletes and coaches.




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Police catch leader of Britain's biggest 'chop shop' gang

Amaan Zameer, 30, Mohammed Nadeem, 28, Nadeem Arshad, 42, (who admitted a lead role) and Zahir Hussain, 31, stole at least 117 vehicles from across England in burglaries and carjackings.




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What Brits have been buying on eBay this year

Online retailer eBay has revealed exactly what Brits have been searching for and purchasing this year, with its Year in Buy report suggesting TV has proved highly influential on people's shopping habits.




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Will Apple and Amazon launch rival credit cards in Britain?

At the launch event in Cupertino, California, the iPhone maker debuted a white titanium card with no number, security code, expiry date or name, only the Apple logo. Could it launch in Britain too?




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Britain’s contactless capital revealed: London doesn't top the list

It is Bristol where the highest proportion of card payments are swiped, with 73 per cent of 11.5million card transactions in the West Country city using contactless.




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Is Britain's biggest payday lender QuickQuid on the verge of administration?

Britain's biggest payday loan collapse since Wonga could be on the cards as QuickQuid is on the verge of going into administration, according to reports.




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Hastee Pay and Creditspring: two companies trying to solve Britain’s high-cost credit crisis 

Households are increasingly saving less and getting into more debt and a payday loan crackdown hasn't solved the problem. This is Money rounds up some of the start-ups trying to help




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Personal debt mountain in Britain grows £45bn in a decade

Households have £45bn more debt on credit cards, personal loans and overdrafts compared to the start of 2010 - growth of 25% in 10 years, Bank of England data shows.




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Britain's £69bn credit card debt pile falls year-on-year for the first time ever

Households paid back a whopping £3.8bn more than they borrowed in March, the biggest figure on record, as households shunned their credit cards in the face of the coronavirus crisis.